King Congie will be scratched as the second morning-line choice from Saturday’s Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park after incurring a strained hind leg during a routine gallop Friday morning at the Florence, Ky., track.

Jeff Lifson, regional representative for the colt’s owner, West Point Thoroughbreds, made the announcement Friday evening. King Congie was the 4-1 second choice in an original field of 12 3-year-olds in the Grade 3, $500,000 Vinery Spiral, the annual showcase event at Turfway. There is no also-eligibles list for the Spiral, so only as many as 11 will run.

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Astrology is running a little late for a very important date, but he can make up significant ground Sunday, when he starts his 3-year-old season in the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Park Derby.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Add Bowman’s Causeway’s name to the short list of 3-year-olds eyeing the $ 1 million Florida Derby.

FLORENCE, Ky. - Given a choice, Barry Irwin might have preferred that Animal Kingdom and Crimson China switch places on the Saturday program at Turfway Park. But due to eligibility criteria, Animal Kingdom runs in the $500,000 Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes while Crimson China settles for a berth in the $100,000 Rushaway Stakes on the undercard.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Riveting Reason, second in the Grade 2 Robert Lewis Stakes in February in his most recent start, has been turned out for the spring with a hoof injury, according to Maria Ayala, assistant to owner-trainer Myung Kwon Cho.

Riveting Reason was turned out to a local farm in mid-March and is expected to miss two or three months of training, Ayala said Friday. Riveting Reason has had one workout since the Lewis, over five furlongs at Santa Anita on March 5.

“Mr. Cho said it’s better to wait,” Ayala said.

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Trainer Rick Violette also left the door slightly open that his Economic Summit might run in the Florida Derby after the son of Malibu Moon sizzled five furlongs in 59.80 at Palm Meadows on Wednesday. Economic Summit is coming off a fifth-place finish in the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby.

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NEW ORLEANS – Neil Howard is proof that you can’t keep a good man down. He’s one of the nicest trainers in the game, unfailingly polite, beyond considerate, his main concerns being his horses, his clients, and then, a distant third behind that photo finish, himself – always in that order.

Howard has proven for more than three decades that he knows how to train, witness a Preakness victory by Summer Squall in 1990, a Kentucky Oaks win by Secret Status in 2000, and a masterful campaign that landed Mineshaft the title as Horse of the Year in 2003.